| Title |
Browning Arms Company Collection, Box 009, Folder 02 |
| Creator |
Browning, John Val; Goddard, Grant F.; Browning, Marriner Bigelow; Frost, G. E.; Comeaux, C. Stewart; Coleman, R. H.; McFarlane, Charles; Browning, Marriner A.; Ormsbee, A. G.; Babson, A. C.; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Invention Incorporated; Winchester Repeating Arms Company; Browning, Val A., 1895-1994; Ellis, Douglas B.; Browning Arms Company; Askins, Charles; Sheldon, H. P.; Lindsey, Theodore Clay; FN (Firm : Belgium); Woodson, William T.; Prutzman, John M.; Rafter, John R.; Hume, James P.; Pattishall, Beverly W.; Levy, Beatrice; Brearley, J. A.; Russell, John E.; Griffith, G. H.; Browning, Matthew S. |
| Contributors |
J. M. & M. S. Browning Company; Winchester Repeating Arms Company; Browning Arms Company; Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute; Remington Arms Company; Federal Cartridge Corporation; The Poly Choke Company; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Outdoor Life; Lindsey, Prutzman And Just; Lindsey, Theodore Clay; Rogers and Woodson; Rafter, John R.; Wilkinson, Huxley, Byron & Hume; United States. Department of State. Bureau of Foreign Commerce; Rogers and Reed; United States. Bureau of Customs |
| Description |
Primarily correspondence from Marriner Bigelow Browning to colleagues, such as Val Allen Browning and Douglas B. Ellis, regarding manufacturing and design matters. Additionally it is consistently discussed with Theodore Clay Lindsey in respect to legal matters such as their trademarks. |
| Subject |
Firearms industry and trade--United States; Firearms industry and trade--Utah; Browning Arms Company; Business enterprises--Utah--Ogden--History; Fabrique Nationale automatic rifles; Remington Arms Company; Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute; Winchester Repeating Arms Company; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Firearms--Design and construction |
| Digital Publisher |
Digitized by Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Date Digital |
2026-04 |
| Date |
1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951 |
| Medium |
correspondence; notes (documents); documents; ephemera; newspaper clippings; publications (documents); financial records; legal records |
| Spatial Coverage |
Belgium; New York City, New York, United States; New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States; Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States; Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States; Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States; St. Louis, Missouri, United States; Washington, D.C., United States; Ames, Major County, Oklahoma, United States; Falls Church, Virginia, United States; Herstal, Liege, Wallonia, Belgium; Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States; Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Type |
Text |
| Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 13000XL scanner. Digital images were reformatted in Photoshop. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. For further information:  |
| Sponsorship/Funding |
Funding generously provided by the Val A. Browning Charitable Foundation. |
| Source |
Browning Arms Company Collection, MS492, Box 9, Folder 2, Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6c1g19f |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
184764 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6c1g19f |
| Title |
Page 81 |
| OCR Text |
Show GR bi FS Denver, Colorado. Ames, Mr. John Browning, «Me. & M45. Browning Osden, Dear Okla. ,Sept.9- Company, Utah, Mr, Browning: your lette * the third. The original Super Fox was overbored to a barrel diam of 4750. Choke length wa es inchs a straight taper, with constriction of 50/1000 LC. This boring was designed by sweeley, Twin Falls , idaho. The chamber tapered from ,.800" a(9Q", «. Later 11 was discovered that .790 was too ticht for shells, and it was widened to .793. Cone was 3/4 inch, tapering from the chamber diameter to the barrel diameter, straight taper. The chambers were three inch, same as the cases. Later, after a good deal of experimental work, it was dis covered that barrels over bored to .740 instead of .750 shot just as well. I think the Fox people changed to the .740 boring, at least I four with advised it. Such and a half inches a constriction of suns were bored evenly .740 from cone to from the muzzle, then tapered, straight taper, 46/1000 at the muzzle. Occasionally, where a cun was not found to°* be shooting close enough, the barrel was opened up back of the choke, enlarged about two or three thousandths of an inch, in a length of an inch and a half with the polishing tool, taper ing was 2 in to the center of the seme as bef fore, 7/8 inches long, cone anh eighth does the i¢ Or ct j go of again. 3" case permitted extend which an thing, Fox this enlargement and out except the chamber for a I. .750.cun no inch/ This I. thi ink, do not works need of the was put shell found whether to Chambering was cut up into to improve patterns, they reached like the dette: conclu know, well, an over Yours, normal bore velocity of more and than no loss 10/1000 of inch. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
184845 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6c1g19f/184845 |